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Harold Adamson

Shows · Harold Adamson

Lyricist 1906–1980

Harold Campbell Adamson (December 10, 1906 – August 17, 1980) was an American lyricist from the 1930s through the 1960s.

Also credited on3 works

Earl Carroll Vanities
As The Girls Go
Banjo Eyes

These come off the person record, which names a work and not a production. So we can say this name is attached to the work and we cannot say which staging, or in what capacity. For a composer or a writer that is the whole career we hold; there is no cast list to find them in.

In the literature2 passages

  • McHugh; Lyrics, Dorothy Fields, Harold Adamson, Al Dubin; Additional Music and Lyrics, Arthur Malvin; Presented by Terry Allen Kramer and Harry Rigby in association with Columbia Pictures;theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1978-79, v. 35 (Willis).txt
  • include Showboat, The Man Who Came to Dinner with Alexander Wolcott and My Sister Eileen. The wife of five-time Oscar-nominated lyricist Harold Adamson, she administered his music catalog after his death, was an activetheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 2002-03 Season, v. 59 (Willis).txt

Passages naming this person, found by keyword across 178 books. A keyword match is not a biography, and a common name will pull in the wrong one.

What this page does not know

  • What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
  • Any staging. This name appears in no production cast list we hold — 1,877 of 7,139 people are in that position, most of them writers, composers and designers rather than performers.
  • Any portrait. 1,626 of 7,139 people have one, so this is the usual case rather than the exception.
  • Which of the credits above the roles on this record — lyricist — apply to. The roles sit on the person and never on a credit, so a director who also acted looks the same here as one who did not.

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